Colorado Springs chefs teach home cooking classes

Want to take your cooking to the next level? Here are two new places to hone your skills: Gather Food Studio and Chef’s Table Colorado Springs. I’ve taken classes at each and highly recommend both. Here is a little overview of what you can expect. Gather Food Studio is brought to you by Cortney Smith and David Cook. Smith was most recently vice president of Cooks Marketplace, which closed a few months ago. She and Cook, a personal chef, both worked with the store’s extensive cooking class program. They recently found a cozy little cottage in Old Colorado City and created a new cooking school. The space limits the number of students to six, who cook in pairs. I found the new format of smaller classes a good fit. There’s more time for Smith and Cook to assist participants and keep the session flowing nicely. I took a Friday evening movie night class. The movie was “Chef,” about a chef who walks off his job at a prominent Los Angeles restaurant after refusing to compromise his creative integrity. He buys a food truck in Miami and takes off on an adventurous road trip back to L.A. with his son and sidekick sous chef. Smith designed a menu around the Miami-style cuisine featured on the food truck, namely the Cubano sandwich. We baked Cuban bread, made spicy dill pickles and fresh mustard, and pressure-cooked seasoned pork and tostones (fried plantains) while the movie played on the flat-screen TV. From our combined… [Read full story]